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From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: TVTWM ANYONE???
Date: 8 Sep 1994 13:03:45 GMT
Organization: CICNet, Inc.
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In article <BLYMN.94Sep8144606@mallee.awadi.com.au>,
Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au> wrote:
>Dunno if this applies but I had a problem with tvtwm under NetBSD 0.9.
>It seems that the system macro processor, m4, will not take stuff on
>stdin.  If you have a version of tvtwm that uses m4 to preprocess the
>system.twmrc then you will have problems.  I ended up just disabling
>the feature by putting the "-M" flag on my tvtwm command line.  It
>worked fine when I did this.

You might consider trying GNU m4 as an alternative.

prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/m4-1.2.tar.gz

Looking at the source, it appears to support stdin (haven't tried it).

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Paul Southworth
CICNet Systems Support
pauls@cic.net